Lord March on the 20th anniversary of the Festival of Speed

On the Festival of Speed's 20th anniversary year, Paul Hudson talks to Lord
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Talking to the Telegraph's Paul Hudson, Lord March, Festival of Speed founder, reflects on the event's 20th anniversary, joking: "I can't decide if it's all gone in a flash or whether it feels like 130 years!"

With more than 185,000 people attending this year's Festival, it's hard to imagine what it was like in 1993 when 20,000 people turned up. But even that was an astonishing achievement, says Lord March, who had been expecting more like 2,500 people.

Explaining the idea behind the Festival of Speed, Lord March said: "The thing we've found more and more often is that people just want to get close to the cars. That's the big thing. So if we can do that in a really high quality way, give people a fabulous experience, show them the cars they dreamt of as children, with the right drivers in them, and get the drivers in front of them, get them chatting, so they can kick the tyres and talk to the drivers - that's what it's all about."